Manga Man

East meets West in this innovative and very smart graphic novel by Barry Lyga, illustrated by Colleen Doran.

Sci-fi adventure meets love story—and East meets West—in Mangaman, an originalgraphic novel for teens.Ryoko, a manga character from a manga world, falls through the Rip into the “real” world—the western world—and tries to survive as the ultimate outsider at a typical American high school.When Ryoko falls in love with Marissa Montaigne, the most beautiful girl in the school, his eyes turn to hearts and comic tension tightens as his way of being drawn and expressing himself clashes with this different Western world in which he is stuck in. “Panel-holed” for being different, Ryoko has to figure out how to get back to his manga world, back through the Rip . . . all while he has hearts for eyes for a girl from the wrong kind of comic book.Barry Lyga writes a metafictive masterpiece as manga meets traditional Western comic book style, while Colleen Doran combines manga techniques and conventions with Western comic book

Baker & TaylorRyoko Kiyama, a character from a Japanese comic book, or manga, falls through a rip into the real world--the western world--and tries to survive as the ultimate outsider at a typical American high school.

Baker & TaylorRyoko Kiyama, a character from a Japanese comic book, or manga, falls through a rip into the real world--the western world--and tries to survive as the ultimate outsider at a typical American high school. By the author of The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl. 35,000 first printing.

Really nifty idea. I loved the idea that manga style reactions/emotions can look so out of place in the "real" world. I would have liked this comic more if it had been in colour (the black and white just didn't appeal to me) and I didn't like the non-manga illustrations. I wished they had picked a different style of Western comic illustrations. That aside, it was really good.

Library_Dragon
Nov 16, 2011

Interesting idea and fairly well executed. Though I question why Ryoko looks like he stepped out of a 1980s manga.